TY - JOUR
T1 - Romantic relationships and nonsuicidal self-injury among college students
T2 - the mediating role of emotion regulation
AU - Silva, Eliana
AU - Machado, Bárbara C.
AU - Moreira, Célia S.
AU - Ramalho, Sofia
AU - Gonçalves, Sónia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is an increasing health problem among college students. Research about risk factors behind the development of this behavior has been limited. This study aims to test whether emotion regulation mediates the connection between romantic relationships and NSSI. Participants were 566 college students (72.8% female) between 18 and 35 years old. Eighty participants (14.1%) reported having injured themselves. Emotion regulation fully mediated the associations between NSSI and four important subdomains of romantic relationships, namely, avoidance of intimacy, anxiety over abandonment, violence victimization, and violence perpetration. We specified a model that evidences the mediating role of the emotion regulation between romantic relationships (romantic attachment and intimate partner violence) and NSSI. This study makes a unique contribution by assessing the pathway through which romantic relationship functioning impact NSSI.
AB - Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is an increasing health problem among college students. Research about risk factors behind the development of this behavior has been limited. This study aims to test whether emotion regulation mediates the connection between romantic relationships and NSSI. Participants were 566 college students (72.8% female) between 18 and 35 years old. Eighty participants (14.1%) reported having injured themselves. Emotion regulation fully mediated the associations between NSSI and four important subdomains of romantic relationships, namely, avoidance of intimacy, anxiety over abandonment, violence victimization, and violence perpetration. We specified a model that evidences the mediating role of the emotion regulation between romantic relationships (romantic attachment and intimate partner violence) and NSSI. This study makes a unique contribution by assessing the pathway through which romantic relationship functioning impact NSSI.
KW - Emotion regulation
KW - Intimate partner violence
KW - Nonsuicidal self-injury
KW - Romantic attachment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.04.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017141176
SN - 0193-3973
VL - 50
SP - 36
EP - 44
JO - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
ER -
